HOTDISC TOP 40 3 August 2014
This is a list of the Top 40 Most Popular Songs released on the Rush Released promotional CD. Each week DJs and media people who receive Rush Released send back their reaction sheets where they are given the chance to rate every song. This chart is exclusively for clients of the Rush Released CD. The chart is published weekly here, and also in Country Music People, Country Music & Dance, Up Country and Southern Country magazines.
To watch the video for each song (where available) click on the titles.
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Cowboys Of The Caribbean BERTIE HIGGINS
No More Lonely THE ROYS
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Distant Drums (2014 Version) JIM REEVES
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Let Your Country Out JESSIE LEE CATES
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Never Really Left BRIAN COLLINS
Wake Up Drunk COREY COX
This Is Me BRYAN MAYER
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That’s The Sound SARABETH
Jezebel GRACIA HARRISON
Let’s Start A Party OWEN HOWELL
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Walk Out Of The Rain SAWYER BROWN
Everything Is Made In China DAVID STARR
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Fresno Silver Mine DAVID HILGENFELDT PROJECT
14
Baddest Gunslingin’ Man ACE DIAMOND
Put That Country Song On TONY CLARKE
16
Train Wreck JAMES HOUSE
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12
15 Minutes JAMIE LEE THURSTON
God’s Green Earth M CALLAHAN
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The Ways Of Love MIM GREY
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Catchin’ Fireflies MADELINE SMITH
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Georgia For This ERICA SUNSHINE LEE
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As Good As It Gets! ROB ALLEN
Summer Love MOORE & MOORE
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Candles On A Cake Of Pink And White DONNY RICHMOND
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Go Big Or Go Home HOLLY MAY
You’re The Reason God Made Oklahoma DAVID FRIZZELL & SHELLY WEST
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Fabulous Day BLAIR MATHEWS
Cornfields ALLAN CRAIG MILLER
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You & Me TONY CLARKE
While I Am Still Here T PAUL MATSON
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Country Love RE MATTEI
Manana (The Pajama Song) CERRITO
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More Than A Cotton Dress TYLER BARHAM
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Country Girl 101 LEAH SEAWRIGHT
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Sorry Ain’t Enough KASEY LANSDALE
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Where Are You Spending Your Nights These Days DAVID FRIZZELL
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I’ll Fly Away (2014 Version) JIM REEVES
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Yesterday’s Child BILLY CHERNOFF
Picture Of My Life THE SONNY WALTERS BAND
Key Largo (Country Version) BERTIE HIGGINS
THE HOTDISC BRITISH & IRISH INDEPENDENT TOP 10
The Ways Of Love Mim Grey
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Crazy Love GARY CURTIS
A Horse Called Bob GEORGE INGLIS
09
One Minute More SAM HOLLYMAN
What’s Left Is What’s Right JOHN HINSHELWOOD
Bright Side Of Life HAYLEY OLIVER BAND
The Hotdisc chart is compiled from DJs and industry professionals’ ratings of songs currently being promoted on the Rush Released CD. They are not airplay charts, as airplay charts cannot work in Europe because there are no terrestrial country stations. The hundreds of country programmes on air which we service are likely to play a particular song only twice at most in a three month period, therefore rendering airplay charts insignificant in Europe. It works well in America where there are plenty of non-stop country stations but it does not work here. Any Airplay Chart you may see claiming to provide this service is bogus and Hotdisc does not condone these charts at all. They are misleading at best for the reasons stated.
The Hotdisc charts are put together weekly using ratings supplied by DJs who give scores to every song on the last three months’ editions of Rush Released. The scores are averaged out per week to give an accurate guide to the songs which are being championed by the industry. The aim is to showcase the songs which the industry professionals are flagging up as quality songs. This is a very useful exercise as it is free of politics, hype and rigging and done solely on merit!
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